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Reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic have escalated the pre-existing tensions between the US and China and among different Western nations. Confrontations between political globalists and mercantilist nationalists - between supporters of the rules-based international order and proponents of overt protectionism - are fueling ever-stronger international resentments.
Coupling argumentative rigor with a pragmatic, plainspoken approach, Phil Mullan charts out a novel, democratic way past dangerous and self-defeating confrontations towards a future of open international collaboration based on popular participation within nation states. With its clear-eyed assessment of the opportunities and challenges of a more interconnected world - an assessment in which the economic internationalisation underpinning globalisation theories is neither romanticised nor vilified - Beyond Confrontation sets a judicious tone for the big geopolitical themes of our times.
Price: $31.99
Pages: 256
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date:
11 August 2020
ISBN: 9781839825637
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General, International economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
'Beyond Confrontation comes at a time of maximum potential confrontation that has been made even more critical by the arrival of Covid-19. Essential reading for every political leader.'
Phil Mullan is a scholar, book author and business manager who addresses the intersections between economics and politics. His work is informed by over two decades of experience in advisory and senior-management roles in international business;
Introduction: Global times
Part 1: A world of rules
Chapter 1: Making the rules-based international order
Chapter 2: Globalism against politics
Chapter 3: The anti-democratic roots of neoliberalism
Chapter 4: From post-war order to disorder
Part 2: Myths about trade
Chapter 5: The obsession with trade
Chapter 6: Trade becomes weaponised
Chapter 7: Free trade illusions
Chapter 8: The rise and rise of protectionism
Part 3: Internationalism starts at home
Chapter 9: Internationalisation: sustaining atrophy
Chapter 10: The battle starts at home
Chapter 11: Internationalism, national sovereignty and democracy
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